Winter Challenge 2024- Truck Service kit- Jeff Firestone

[GPdemayo]

Looking good Jeff.....

[nycjeff]

Post-it notes makes a nice yellow window shade color, and I've found it will fade prototypically over time :-)

dave

Hello Dave, you're right, I've used yellow post-it notes for window shades in the past.

Looks like a good start on the structure.  I like the color scheme.

Jeff

Hello Jeff, thanks for looking in. I'm having fun with this build, Jason has done a great job with the design.

Looking good Jeff.....

Hello Greg, appreciate the kind words.

[Jerry]

Great start Jeff.  The shed really came out nice.

Jerry

[nycjeff]

Hello Jerry, thanks for looking in and for the kind words

[nycjeff]

Continuing on...

The large entry door to the stucco building comes in two parts- four if you count the man door that inserts into the door opening in the large door. The parts were first sprayed with a flat red primer and then sponged with a light grey and a bittersweet chocolate for a rust effect. I then added a few small signs.



I also added a few signs to the front of the wood building



Next I started to glue the walls together using the lines on my cutting mat to keep things square.







The walls fit together well. I thought that I might have problems fitting everything together with the odd shape of the walls, but things went together easily.

[nycjeff]

A look at the rear wall of the wood building. More detail will be added later in the build.



The last wood wall is the short one with three windows that fits between the front and rear walls at the second story level. Again, everything fit together easily.



The two buildings have been glued together. All fit well except for the left side wall overhang on the foundation. I'm not sure if this was my error or not.The tabs on the top of the wood walls fit into the slots on the stucco walls as they should have and the foundation is square under the wood walls. It's not a problem because my plan for the loading dock will cover this area.



Two of the roof cards with rolled roofing material added are shown here and the large sliding door has been glued in place. I wanted to leave this door open to show an interior space. I used a piece of 1/16 plywood for the floor and painted it with a grey chalk paint. I then added some weathering chalks for oil spills and tire marks. I also added a couple of interior details just to give the appearance of a busy interior.



Here's a look at the rear walls after the buildings were glued together.



That's it for now, more later.

[ACL1504]

Jeff,

The truck service is looking good.

Tom